Word: straightenings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patients requiring surgery. Doctors implant thin steel rods next to the spine, placing them over the bone and under the back muscles. The rods, which are attached to the vertebrae with metal hooks, are then tightened-much like a set of orthodontic braces-to force the spine to straighten. At the same time, the spine is fused to give it additional strength. Patients who undergo surgery must spend up to four weeks in the hospital and as long as ten months in a body cast...
...technique can produce spectacular results. Wendy Clifford, 16, of Minneapolis, literally grew two inches on the operating table as doctors used a Harrington rod to straighten her crooked spine. "I'm glad I had it done," she says. "The doctors told me that by the time I was 30 I would have been completely crippled...
More recently, Ford has been trying to straighten out the jumble at the White House. Pieces have begun to fall into their proper places; aides have stopped shifting uncertainly from office to office. "He's coming along," says a former presidential adviser. "There's been a significant improvement in his perception of the job. I assume the experience of sitting at that desk...
Children who survive starvation remain scarred for life. No amount of vitamin D will straighten legs bowed by rickets; proper portions of essential proteins cannot undo the damage done to a growing child's brain by their absence. Brain cells require protein, and they need it from the very moment that life begins. At least 80% of all human brain growth occurs between conception and the age of two. This growth cannot take place in the fetus if the mother is malnourished, and it cannot be accomplished in the infant if he is starving. Nor will it happen later...
...family and was a harsh disciplinarian to her seven children. "I didn't spare the rod," she says. "I whipped good. I'd get off at 10 o'clock and sometimes I'd whip the rest of the night. Sometimes I took that long to straighten...